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 * Copyright 2009 Huascar A. Sanchez                                        *
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package com.gotobject.filter.reflection;

import com.gotobject.filter.Filter;
import com.gotobject.filter.FilterImpl;
import com.gotobject.filter.builders.ClassMetadataFilteringBuilder;

/**
 * @author huascar.sanchez@gmail.com (Huascar A. Sanchez)
 */
public class ReflectionFilter {
    private final Filter filter;

    /**
     * default constructor of the ReflectionFilter implementation.
     */
    public ReflectionFilter(){
        this(new FilterImpl());
    }

    /**
     * construct a {@code reflection filter} object.
     * @param filter
     *      FilterQ's{@link Filter} implementation.
     */
    ReflectionFilter(Filter filter){
        this.filter = filter;
    }

    /**
     * construct a {@link ClassMetadataFilteringBuilder} builder.
     * @param klass
     *      class to be filtered.
     * @return
     *     a {@link ClassMetadataFilteringBuilder} builder.
     */
    public ClassMetadataFilteringBuilder from(Class<?> klass){
        return new ClassMetadataFilteringBuilder(klass, filter);
    }

}
